The Battle of Britain

I expect that the Battle of
Britain is about to begin . . . if we fail, then the whole world,
including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for,
will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more
protracted, by the light of perverted
science. Let us therefore brace ourselves
to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and
Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their
finest hour."

- Sir Winston Churchill to the
House of Commons at the outset of The Battle of Britain, 18 June 1940

In the Summer of 2002, an obsession began. Mike Blackburn, also
known as the "Master of Ossus", found himself trumped again and again
in intellectual combat. In his every campaign, he would throw himself
headlong against fact and reason, ever astonished to find his brittle arguments
smashed and broken about him. These failures burned within him, and his
hatred for the source of the facts and reasoning that had been his downfall did
not fade with the source's departure in September, and only increased when he saw
his master bested.

Two months later,
Ossus called
for a Warsie Jihad against that source's internet island. A wise
move . . . Warsie weapons were inferior, but with the numerical superiority of
an all-Warsie blitzkrieg, he thought he might be able to at least cause the
appearance of damage. After all, for Rabid Warsies appearances are
always more important than facts. That's what the Rabid Warsie support group
mentality is all about.

Upon seeing this call to arms, I replied thusly
and had the link posted on SD.Net's BBS, challenging him to a one-on-one debate
. . . if he thought he had the courage.

Naturally,
he never responded.

And thus, a month and a half later, Wong and Ossus
have led other SD.Net BBS flunkies into attack . . . their so-called "definitive" rebuttal of my site. Since Wong has chosen to redirect
all links from this site to a porn site for fear of his silliness being
displayed for all to see, simply cut and paste the following into your browser's
address bar to see the sad effort:
www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/RSA/MoO/index.html

Though 90% of
it is hardly worth replying to, crashing into the ground of its own accord, I would hate for those unfamiliar with Warsie
tactics to fail to pick up on the many falsehoods and deceptions . . . hence the
following, in which I shoot down their claims. Though the focus, as
always, will be in regards to the opposition's claims regarding actual, topical
Vs. Debate data, the nature of their attack, as always, involves a large amount
of petty personal attacks. I will respond to these if and when I feel it
appropriate to do so.

This is a work in
progress, since they ganged up on me and have a month and a half head
start. But, if Ossus was the primary author, it shouldn't take long at all
to blast through their claims and Wong's commentary . . . Ossus uses
creationist scattergun tactics, a la Wong (which,
of course, was the entire point of them publishing all at once), but Ossus's
techniques overall are lacking in comparison to his master. On the
other hand, it's worth noting that in some ways, Ossus can be a more
crafty opponent than Wong, if even accidentally. When Wong says something obviously wrong or that is a
direct lie, he does it forcefully, and/or with a lot of opponent-bashing before
and after, in the hopes that no one will dare reply. When Ossus says
something obviously wrong or that is a direct lie, he does it, to borrow from
Han, "real quiet-like", trying to sneak it under truth's radar.
But, like Han, he often steps on a stick and gives it all away.

I will post
the responses in the order which he used
for ease of reference. Expect several at a time, with the first batch
coming soon.

G2k 1-7-03

(Note:
Some might object to my intentionally-humorous use of war terminology in response to what professes to
be a rebuttal to my arguments. Indeed, Wong and company utterly missed (or
conceitedly ignored) the whole "Dark Ages" and "light of
perverted science" jabs, instead suggesting that I was in a fit of
rage. Now, make no mistake . . . Wong and his fellows
are not interested in my arguments, the facts presented, or logic used to arrive
at the conclusions. Theirs is a vendetta of the vanquished, and I am
poking fun at them accordingly. As Ossus
states in the Epilogue, the pages have a "goal of crippling Anderson's
credibility". That's hardly the statement of someone interested only
in facts and reason, but it is on the basis of those that I will repulse
their attack . . . though I plan to have some fun doing it.)